FINAL PROGRAMME SELE 2015

Seventh Annual Meeting of the Society for Environmental Law and Economics

21-22 May 2015

Faculty of Law, University of Groningen, ‘Van Swinderen Huys’, the Netherlands

Organizer: Edwin Woerdman - on behalf of the Groningen Centre of Energy Law (GCEL) Sponsored by the Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM), The Netherlands

Thursday, May 21

08:45-09:00 am Welcoming Speech by Edwin Woerdman at 08:45

09:00-10:00 am Session I: EU Emissions Trading and Energy Markets Stefan Weishaar, University of Groningen, The Netherlands "Energy Market Integration and the EU Emissions Trading System: Evidence of Electricity Leakage" Claudia Kettner, WIFO Institute of Economic Research, Austria "The EU Emission Trading Scheme: First Evidence on Phase 3"

10:00-10:15 am Coffee Break

10:15-11:15 am Session II: Credit Trading in the USA and China Brian Sawers, Emory Law School and Conservation Pennsylvania, USA "Nutrient Credit Trading and Co-Variant Risk" Jinshan Zhu, University of Potsdam, Germany "China’s Carbon Governance and its Transplantability"

11:15-11:30 am Coffee Break

11:30 am-12:30 pm Session III: Technological Innovation and Uncertainty Xavier Everaert, University of Turin, Italy "Time, Uncertainty and Judicial Activism" Frans de Vries, University of Stirling, UK "Dynamic Efficiency in Experimental Emissions Trading Markets with Investment Uncertainty"

12:30-13:30 pm Lunch and Informal Meeting

13:30-14:30 pm Session IV: Poverty and Environmental Justice Josephine van Zeben, Worcester College University of Oxford, UK "Fuel Poverty: The Social Costs of Pricing Carbon" Dennis Cory and Lester Taylor, University of Arizona, USA "Environmental Justice and Safe Drinking Water Standards"

14:30-14:45 pm Coffee Break

14:45-15:45 pm Session V: Water Management, Monitoring and Trust David Zetland, Leiden University, The Netherlands "When Worlds Collide: Business Meets Bureaucracy in the Water Sector" Timo Goeschl, Heidelberg University, Germany "Trust, but Verify? When Trustworthiness is Observable Only Through Costly Monitoring"

15:45-16:00 pm Coffee Break

16:00-17:00 pm Session VI: Institutional Analysis and Instrument Choice Daniel Cole, Indiana University, USA "A New Institutional Analysis of Social-Ecological Systems" Peter Grossman, Butler University, USA "Prices versus Prices? Quantities versus Quantities?"

18:30-22:00 pm Conference Dinner plus Surprise at “Hotel de Ville”

Friday, May 22

08:30-09:00 am Coffee, Tea & Cookies

09:00-10:00 am Session VII: Renewable Energy and Antitrust Tim Meyer, University of Georgia, USA "Local Discrimination and Global Public Goods" Matias Guiloff, Diego Portales University, Chile "The Antitrust Implications of Greening the Chilean Energetic Matrix through Mandatory Renewable Energy Quotas"

10:00-10:15 am Coffee Break

10:15-11:15 am Session VIII: Corporations and Environmental Regulation Nigar Hashimzade, Durham University, UK "Corporate Environmental Contributions: Can They Sustain the Public Interest Defence?" James Coleman, University of Calgary, Canada "Corporate Regulatory Impact Predictions"

11:15-11:30 am Coffee Break

11:30 am-12:00 Session IX: Competition versus Sustainability Shi-Ling Hsu, Florida State University College of Law, USA "The Law and Economics of U.S. Hog Production: A Research and Reform Agenda"

12:00-12:45 pm KEYNOTE SPEECH on Competition versus Sustainability Machiel Mulder, Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) & University of Groningen, The Netherlands

12:45-13:45 pm Lunch and Informal Meeting

13:45-14:45 pm Session X: Cost-Benefit Analysis Amy Sinden, Temple University Beasley School of Law, USA "The Problem of Unquantified Benefits" Erik Kloosterhuis, Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM), The Netherlands "Do Environmental Benefits Fit in an Efficiency Defense?"

14:45-15:00 pm Coffee Break

15:00-16:00 pm Session XI: Regulation and Information Arden Rowell, University of Illinois College of Law, Chicago, USA "A Primer on Environmental Regulation: The United States" Jonathan Nash, Emory University School of Law, USA "Regulation, Prediction Markets, and Public Opinion"

16:00-16:15 pm Coffee Break

16:15-17:15 pm Session XII: Monitoring and Enforcement Sandra Rousseau, KU Leuven University, Belgium "Non-uniform Implementation of Uniform Standards" Marcelo Caffera, Universidad de Montevideo, Uruguay "Does the Structure of the Fine Matter?"

17:15-17:30 pm Coffee Break

17:30-18:00 pm Concluding Remarks, also on Next Year’s Conference

18:00 pm End of Conference